Great love stories

February 13, 2013

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Humphrey Bogart met Lauren Bacall when he was 44 and she was 19. Weeks after their first meeting, he ran into her on the Warner Brothers lot. “I just saw your test,” he said of the audition for “To Have and Have Not.” “We’ll have a lot of fun together.” Did they ever. When you watch that film, “everyone could see their love right there on the celluloid,” their son, Steve, told People magazine in 1996. When they filmed the romantic scenes, Bacall was nervous. “I realized that one way to hold my trembling head still was to keep it down, chin low, almost to my chest, and eyes up at Bogart,” she wrote in her autobiography. That look became her trademark. The magazine reported that whenever they would talk on the phone for the next two years, his first words would be, “Hello, Baby,” and Becall wrote that her “heart would literally pound.” They married on a friends Ohio farm in 1945 and remained by each other’s side until his death from esophageal cancer in 1957.

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Humphrey Bogart met Lauren Bacall when he was 44 and she was 19. Weeks after their first meeting, he ran into her on the Warner Brothers lot. “I just saw your test,” he said of the audition for “To Have and Have Not.” “We’ll have a lot of fun together.” Did they ever. When you watch that film, “everyone could see their love right there on the celluloid,” their son, Steve, told People magazine in 1996. When they filmed the romantic scenes, Bacall was nervous. “I realized that one way to hold my trembling head still was to keep it down, chin low, almost to my chest, and eyes up at Bogart,” she wrote in her autobiography. That look became her trademark. The magazine reported that whenever they would talk on the phone for the next two years, his first words would be, “Hello, Baby,” and Becall wrote that her “heart would literally pound.” They married on a friends Ohio farm in 1945 and remained by each other’s side until his death from esophageal cancer in 1957.